About this site



This site was designed as a digital portfolio of graduate work done by Amity Beane at the University of Maine, Farmington.

I graduated with a Master of Science in Education in August, 2011.


Final Products


EDU 568 Teaching with Integrated Technology (Sponsored by Intel)

EDU 569 Teaching with Mindtools

EDU572 Technology as a Change Agent

EDU580 Module 1--Make a Weblog and a Portfolio for Grad School--you are looking at it!
EDU 581 Teaching Philosophy
EDU 581 Reflective Weblog
EDU 581 One Laptop Per Child--Peru

EDU 580 Module 2--Learn Zotero to do Research--not very useful technology, but here is my nod to it nonetheless.
EDU 582 Technology in Education
EDU 582 Defining Literacy with Web 2.0

EDU 580 Module 3--Type Two Technology Usage--Evident in my products below
EDU 583 Essential Belief Statement
EDU 583 Spanish Field Day
EDU 583 Poetry Unit Spanish 3/4
EDU 583 Reflection

EDU580 module 4 Wiki
EDU584 Data
EDU584 Reflection

EDU580 Module 5
EDU585 will complete August 2011

EDU580 Module 6 Presentation
EDU586 Open Education Resources

EDU587 Open Educational Resources Final Report
EDU580 Poster







George Siemens says: "To function, we need to elevate from cause-effect thinking to (surprise) network adaptive thinking. As educators, our emphasis needs to be on increasingly learners ability to function in unknowing environments. A lesson we first need to learn ourselves." (http://connectivism.ca/blog/2007/09/on_distinctions_between_change.html).